Posts Tagged ‘pity’

Cliff notes: If you have a mysterious problem with a Linux box, try bashing your system with sys_basher...
In desperation, I asked for help. Eric McCartney over at Prominic took some pity on me and started looking at the system. After doing all the usual swaps and tests, there were no obvious issues.
Finally, Eric loaded up a neat little [...]

I pity the moderators at gplus.com. The site is a forum for Gerson Lehrman Group, "the premier enterprise platform for connecting to experts and their insights." But countless Stupid Users trying to find Google+, the search giant's new social network offering, think Gerson Lehrman's G+ is Google+'s G+. Maybe it's just me, but I found it hilarious. [...]

I'm no cartographer, so I can't comment on its accuracy... but this alternative visualization of the size of the African continent compared to various world nations is thought-provoking. No, Africa's not a country, but it's interesting to compare the land mass to countries perceived as more powerful.
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